Showed him the thread from here. Yes, he'll be my coach, and yes, I very easily hot and 8othered him. ("I like how she repeated your typo. Eight-othered!" "Jay, that's not a typo. -.-; We're doing that on purpose. It'll make sense later.")
I let him hear me practice! He seemed impressed by my rehearsal of this page. Well, except when Aradia ribbited and he burst out laughing and I broke character to be all "IT MAKES SENSE IN CONTEXT, OK?" and took a few lines to get back into it. But apparently I can handle rapid switching between R8EG and em0ti0nlessness. So I'd say so far I am doing awesome.